More relevant than at first glance

The opposite of a body count

When you take into consideration that I have seen hundreds of comedies, the number of Hollywood movies which have made me laugh is 30. Below is a list of the movies and how many times they made me laugh.

The Middle is Orlando (21).That ’70s Show is Prank Day (23).Frasier is Good Grief (27).Monk is Mr. Monk Gets Hypnotized (32).Magnum P.I. is Paper War (34).

As for Will Smith’s sitcom, this is the series breakdown…

Season 1: (50).Season 2: (80).Season 3: (43).Season 4: (45).

Magnum P.I. also deserves to be singled out, because that’s the show that people talk about when they hail Moonlighting for being an early attempt at a TV series that had action, comedy, drama and romance being coalesced into a wide range of narratives. It also deserves to be singled out because it predated The A-Team yet somehow gets criticized for being a carbon copy.

The reality TV show that has made me laugh the most is Impractical Jokers (629). Second to that is Hotel Hell (67 times).

In the December 2013 issue of Metal Hammer, Dave Brockie (who plays Oderus Urungus in GWAR) talked about his guest appearance on The Jerry Springer Show (1997): “It was great. It was all staged. The mom wasn’t the kid’s mom. He wasn’t even a GWAR fan. I didn’t know until after the show, while we all were partying, when the mom was hitting on me then told me – Oh no, they paid me to say I was his mom; I’m an actress. All those reality shows – and I’ve done enough to know – they are not reality.”